Diablo III

charmtrap · 2014-08-26T12:05:30.000Z

Ginger Yellow:

How big are we talking here, in terms of bytes? I’m paying by the GB for the next few weeks.

According to Blizz, the size of the patch is around 300mb.

scharmers · 2014-08-26T12:24:23.000Z

Yeah, it’s about that – 326MB or so I think.

charmtrap · 2014-08-26T12:30:29.000Z

The game is live, btw.

TheWombat · 2014-08-26T13:49:57.000Z

How does one start a seasons character? It says there should be a Seasons check box, but I don’t get one when I try to create a new character.

charmtrap · 2014-08-26T13:52:31.000Z

TheWombat:

How does one start a seasons character? It says there should be a Seasons check box, but I don’t get one when I try to create a new character.

Season doesn’t start until Friday.

TheWombat · 2014-08-26T14:07:52.000Z

charmtrap:

Season doesn’t start until Friday.

Yeah, doh, I just looked at the forums. Good to know. I think I’ll probably start a new HC character for the Season then.

Shockmesane · 2014-08-26T15:45:58.000Z

… +100% gold find (multiplicative stack) and +100% treasure goblins. Dear lord!

ARogan · 2014-08-26T19:02:41.000Z

grrrr:

twitter.com

BlizzardCS (BlizzardCS)

[NA] - We are currently looking into some issues with D3 and Hearthstone. Updates to follow.

1:47 AM - 27 Aug 2014 110 91

WarrenD · 2014-08-26T19:11:04.000Z

ARogan:

grrrr:
https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/504445149762420736

Give me an off-line single player mode and we’ll call it square.

stusser · 2014-08-26T19:20:28.000Z

I assume it’s more DDOS. Remember the lulzsec guys thought they were invincible too.

charmtrap · 2014-08-26T19:31:33.000Z

I was in the middle of fighting a champ when it went down on HC character. I’m gonna be sad if I log in dead.

solomani · 2014-08-26T19:35:13.000Z

I was playing WoW a few hours before the “rolling restarts”. After the restart time expired the update changed to “realm down for extended maintenance due to DDoS attack hardening” or some such. Twelve hours later…

Sorry Blizzard, you need better IT. Hire people who have worked in a 100% real-time/up-time environment to manage your systems.

Shockmesane · 2014-08-26T19:52:36.000Z

Blizzard’s IT people are fine. No one has faced this kind of concentrated attack before. Obviously it’s going to take a moment to resolve. If someone did this to the government, people with guns would be knocking on doors.

WarrenD · 2014-08-26T19:56:08.000Z

Shockmesane:

Blizzard’s IT people are fine. No one has faced this kind of concentrated attack before. Obviously it’s going to take a moment to resolve. If someone did this to the government, people with guns would be knocking on doors.

Well I’m frustrated enough now to say arm all Blizzard employees and get this show on the road ASAP.

charmtrap · 2014-08-26T19:57:31.000Z

Shockmesane:

Blizzard’s IT people are fine. No one has faced this kind of concentrated attack before. Obviously it’s going to take a moment to resolve. If someone did this to the government, people with guns would be knocking on doors.

I’m pretty sure they don’t bother knocking anymore, they just throw tear gas into the baby’s crib and shoot your dog in the head.

JMR · 2014-08-26T20:16:16.000Z

Why in the hell am I downloading a 9GB patch when I’ve had the game and RoS installed since day one?

Shockmesane · 2014-08-26T20:52:29.000Z

For any of you that haven’t played, the treasure goblin swarm is… delightful.

solomani · 2014-08-26T20:54:48.000Z

Shockmesane:

Blizzard’s IT people are fine. No one has faced this kind of concentrated attack before. Obviously it’s going to take a moment to resolve. If someone did this to the government, people with guns would be knocking on doors.

I am not being specific about this DDoS attack but generally their IT sucks. Sorry.

Coming from a investment banking background where we get DDoS and worse style of attacks consistently I call BS. And we have users who demand no downtime or even a slight deterioration in quality as an added bonus.

The tools, systems, designs and process already exist in IT for a no downtime environment (from a customers point of view)

Shockmesane · 2014-08-26T21:02:46.000Z

solomani:

I am not being specific about this DDoS attack but generally their IT sucks. Sorry.

Coming from a investment banking background where we get DDoS and worse style of attacks consistently I call BS. And we have users who demand no downtime or even a slight deterioration in quality as an added bonus.

The tools, systems, designs and process already exist in IT for a no downtime environment (from a customers point of view)

It might “suck”, but I can’t recall one video game company that has needed to deal with this level of assault. Of course a Wall Street company needs to expect this kind of thing. So I guess you are correct in the assertion that of course Blizzard hasn’t hired the best hackers in the industry, they had no proof that they needed to until now. It’s needless to insult people who’s skill sets you know nothing about is all I’m saying. If it makes you feel better, go wild, but you have no idea what these people bring to the table, so don’t insult them and pretend like you deal with this daily and they are idiots.

KevinC · 2014-08-26T23:20:43.000Z

Shockmesane:

It might “suck”, but I can’t recall one video game company that has needed to deal with this level of assault. Of course a Wall Street company needs to expect this kind of thing. So I guess you are correct in the assertion that of course Blizzard hasn’t hired the best hackers in the industry, they had no proof that they needed to until now. It’s needless to insult people who’s skill sets you know nothing about is all I’m saying. If it makes you feel better, go wild, but you have no idea what these people bring to the table, so don’t insult them and pretend like you deal with this daily and they are idiots.

Honestly, Blizzard’s IT is deplorable. It’s not just the DDoS, it’s the lengthy downtimes for patches, updates, etc. There’s really just no excuse for it, especially for a company with the resources that Blizzard has.

I highly doubt that they’re idiots, but I think it’s clear that they don’t bother putting much in the way of resources towards improving their infrastructure.